Skylapser.com was originally founded by Jay Shaffer to provide astrophotography and time-lapse photography tips, techniques, and tutorials. Skylapser.com is also the portal for the Deep Sage Nine Observatory, Shaffer’s home observatory in remote Taos county, New Mexico USA.

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    About the Observatory

    Instrumentation includes:

    • A Global Meteor Network Station US001P north-facing meteor detector camera with RMS meteor detection and tracking software running on a Raspberry Pi 4 computer. 
    • Raspberry Pi HQ camera with Arecont Vision 1/2” 1.55mm f2 lens, AllSky software running on a Raspberry Pi 4 computer
    • Lumix G100 Micro 4/3 camera for 4K resolution wide-field and all-sky time-lapse capture
    • Canon RP full-frame camera with 14mm f2.8 lens and TeSeek Nano Tracker for Motion Time-lapse.
    • Celestron C-90 SCT telescope, with Skywatcher All-View Alt-Az mount and SynScan Wi-Fi adapter.
    • Celestron Nexstar 8SE 8″ SCT telescope running StellarMate OS software to control the telescope
    • ZWO SeeStar S50 smart telescope in equatorial mode.
    • Ambient Weather WS_2902 weather station